What is to be done? Our congregations are growing older and smaller. At least 40 percent of our congregations have an average weekly worship attendance of 50 or less. ELCA membership decreases by 70,000 people a year, or roughly the loss of a synod per year. Clergy retirements outnumber...
Roseville Lutheran’s Our Neighbors and Me Committee (ONAM) is committed to encouraging understanding and compassion within and between the various communities of Falcon Heights and Roseville. During the Adult Education hours on Sunday, February 24, and Sunday, March 3, ONAM will provide...
My trip with RLC to Slovakia in 2016 was something I will remember forever. I learned so much about myself, the world, and my faith. As I spoke with people who live so far away and who have such different experiences than me, I saw that we share the same faith. From...
On Sunday, January 20 Children’s Ministry Director Suzanne Roberts from Santiago, Chile visited Roseville Lutheran Church to meet Pastor Sara and Julie Hanson and talk with them about the Why Jesus? project that her church in Santiago is using. Her daughter and nephew...
In 2016 Doreen Richter saw a brief note on an informational meeting that was being held on a new Mission and Outreach program called Project Home that would be coming to Roseville Lutheran. She knew she wanted to be involved. The less fortunate have always had a place in Doreen’s...
RLC’s mission and vision proclaims that we are to “Love God. Love our neighbor.” This mission and vision is being lived out on a weekly basis with our shared ministry with Sheridan’s Story, an outreach and mission that provides meals for children and their families...
Every year right before Thanksgiving we put up sharing trees at Roseville Lutheran. These sharing trees are decorated with tags that indicate an item one of our local service organizations needs for their work. You faithful take those tags, add a few more items to your Christmas...
It amazing how much our mission, “Love God, Love Your Neighbor” reaches beyond our preschool. One cool morning while the construction workers were working on the roof, one of our preschool teachers overheard one of the construction workers say that he forgot to put on his warm...
Last Sunday, our Cornerstone and Luther League kids made crafts for their homes to help celebrate the Advent season. Advent Activity Day has been a tradition at RLC for the past 30+ years. Many hands are needed to prep the supplies needed for each age group to create these nice...
Worship for me is… living all my life from the core of a prayer we prayed Sunday after Sunday at the end of the worship service in the church where I was baptized and confirmed: “Help us to treasure in our hearts all that our Lord has done for us, and enable us to show our...